Geo-Strategic Significance Of The Northeast India Region: A Physiographic Analysis

Abstract

The present study had been focussed on the strategic position of Northeast India, Northeast as a good natural frontier. A bottleneck Siliguri corridor of just 20 km links the Northeast with the rest of India, while free Northeast insurgency networks and associations have links far and wide both within India and outside. Northeast shares 99 per cent of its boundaries with international country. China lies to the north, Myanmar to the east, Bangladesh and Bhutan to the west this position is facilitating the external linkage and it appears more than probable. These assemblage of foreign countries as neighbours on three sides, in the absence of fortified borders, propels the problem of the strategic vulnerability of the Northeast. For any region to be considered as a good natural frontier depend on its physiography and Geographic location. Northeast India when we look into its physiography and Geographic location it is a good natural frontier. Northeast India is a land-locked region its physiography is not a homogenous unit. It has natural frontiers on three sides and a political boundary on the fourth. Northeast India experiences humid subtropical climate with hot, humid summers, severe monsoons, and mild winters. No other part of India occupies such a strategic position as the North East. For Northeast India, the importance lies in being next-door neighbours and in the existence of traditional trade and cultural ties.